Number of women clergy continues to rise

In 2011 there were 1,763 women in full time parochial appointments, that is a 50% increase from the 2000 published figures. One in 5 paid parish clergy in the Church of England are now female and more than 50% of self supporting clergy are female.
source Times Online

Attitudes towards women in leadership

As part of a major survey of the views of evangelicals in the UK by the Evangelical Alliance 17,000 Christians were asked:

"Women should be eligible for all roles within the church in the same way that men are"